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Cover reveal! 📚💙 Over 150,000 federal workers resigned last year. We asked them why. The result is Count Me Out: The Best Federal Resignations of 2025. 25 real letters from employees at 18 agencies, plus scholarly analysis, comics, and new poetry. Design by Kate Kinsey. Book coming Oct 2026! 📚💡

PHP is a hot issue today. We want to assure our customers that things are okay. Bicycle Comics has never used any PHP scripts into any of our poetry books, comic strips, or novelty gifts. Our illustrated book of federal resignation letters comes out next week, and no PHP scripts there, either!

Valley Chronicles Explore a curated list of upcoming cultural events and insightful reviews of recent performances, from jazz concerts to films.

“What’s a book that readers should pick up if they want to understand 2026?” Into the Wood Chipper, according to The Book Review critic Jennifer Szalai. (35:30) open.spotify.com/episode/1T4H...

It's like if we somehow put the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment in an Article 2 context. A2: Now, you can eat the power now, but if you wait until tomorrow, you can— DJT: I'M EATING THE POWER NOW.

Thank you to the entire @nihvigils.bsky.social community for hosting this event, with special thanks to @aculbert.bsky.social , @nataliebaviles.bsky.social , @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social , and many without Bluesky.

📢🗳️🩺Looking for a way to support publicly funded health research and election integrity all on one glorious Saturday morning? 📆This Saturday, October 17th at 10am outside of NIH at Medical Center Metro we will rally for health research and democracy. RSVP and share: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

From the #gunlove archives

Me: trying to take break from the latest political architecture drama by reading a book published in 2002 The book, 58 pages in:

We'll be taking questions from former federal employees at 1PM today. Questions from taxpayers and voters are also welcome. After all, it's YOUR government where all this is happening! www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

Weekend session making the ebook version of Count Me Out. We start with templates for emails, LinkedIn posts, and intra-office letters. A book about people resigning in protest is bound to have some heavy content. So we try to start from a place of levity, you know? #ResignationBook

The National Design Studio (NDS) has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.

NIH’s move toward multiyear funding is a major reason for the drop in grant numbers: The agency now commits several years of funding at once to fewer awards, rather than paying for projects one year at a time. www.the-scientist.com/federal-rese...

📣 Hey hey now: First Second just sent out their first post on Bluesky! Deep cut: Their 2014 anthology /Above the Dreamless Dead/ was a flat-out masterpiece, a profound influence. It's in the bibliography of our upcoming book. Whenever we got stuck, we used it as a formatting reference.

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

The organizational hypothesis of @standupforscience.net is that we believe the scientific ecosystem can thrive if we refuse to compromise our integrity. We believe that if we stand by our values, unflinchingly, we won’t doom science and democracy, we will see a better future. Integrity ages well.

26 former federal employees recall how DOGE cuts felt from the inside, as they stood up and walked out the door. All of them gave up paychecks. Some of them gave up pensions. Count Me Out: The Best Federal Resignations of 2025 comes out next month! #ResignationBook

Our upcoming comic book is currently front-page news on @sfgate.com ! Thanks to Sam Hill for covering the story of federal workers and how/why they left their jobs last year. And HUGE thanks to Kevin Heatley and the 25 other former feds who shared their stories in our book.

What does reading The Elements of Style have in common with painting? “The point is clear, elegant writing, of course, but equally important is to think and write visually.” buff.ly/cwtTKZs

Happy New Comic Book Day, Friends! Here's a thread of comics hitting shops today that we've covered on the podcast already. A little supplemental material for your Wednesday pleasure.

Tyler Hassen wants you to know that DOGE worked, that the underlying methodology was sound, and that the problem—if there even were a problem—was one of optics. That's the book he's selling. We've got a different book, based on 26 eyewitness accounts. #ResignationBook

Who's this Tyler Hassen guy, and why is he back in the news today? He's the guy with a new book out telling you DOGE has been tragically misunderstood. 😢

🚨 IT’S FINALLY HERE 🚨 The KAPOW handbook is officially released: 60 pages all about how to integrate mutual aid into electoral politics. And it’s FREE. Join the 1,500+ people who have already received their digital copy: kapow.works/handbook

A big ask, no pressure & I know people have better things to do but if about 15-20 people buy this from Blackwell's in the next few hours it's likely I'd have the number 1 & 2 books in their chart & that might be enough to finally persuade an American publisher to get my books out over there...

Yes. All our previous books have been poetry and/or comic strips. Yes, our upcoming book is a collection of federal resignation letters. We follow the good writing, wherever that leads. #ResignationBook

So close: “Vought just wants it broken.” Vought just wants THEM broken. Somewhere along the line, the pain and humiliation of federal workers began to rival the original goal of reduced expenditures and less regulation. He crossed over from “misguided policy goal” to “outright misanthropy.”

1/ Per Status, @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov may soon bless a weak settlement with few or none of the divestments he's demanded for months.

Count Me Out: The Best Federal Resignations of 2025. Our new anthology is coming this fall in paperback and ebook. The American taxpayer deserves to know the caliber and quality of the civil servants we lost to the DOGE makeover. #ResignationBook

Yup. Strongly seconded. Excited for pt 2!

Sell your book in 5 words: An anthology of resignation letters.

@jenrubin.bsky.social "Book recommendations welcomed." Can you make room for one more illustrated book about the DOGE cuts and DRP? There's a glut of non-fiction comics about the decimation of the federal workforce, but this one is special. This one is ours. #ResignationBook

Doing the right thing can be hard, it can be unpopular, it can be professionally costly. And sometimes, doing the right thing can get you into a comic book. Count Me Out: The Best Federal Resignations of 2025 comes out next month! #ResignationBook

Hiya @epubcreator.bsky.social ! Glad to see you're making cool tools for self-published authors. Long ago, we put all our know-how about formatting poetry for epub and KF8 into a blog, because poetry often gets clobbered by uncaring css built for prose: yellowbuickreview.wordpress.com/about/

Thank you to all of the authors who have signed up to our free beta and provided valuable feedback for our online self-publishing tools. We're so thrilled at the positive experiences so far. If you haven't signed up, try it now free at epubcreator.online #books #writing #newbook #indieauthors

The best-written federal resignation letters of 2025. All in one book. Coming in October from Bicycle Comics. If last year taught federal employees anything, it's that you never know when you're going to have to walk out that door. #ResignationBook

Now, the opening line, you have: 🎶 "Please allow me to introduce myself. I’m Satan. Hello there!" 🎶 I wonder if that gives away the game a little bit early. Maybe just keep the first sentence?

It's wonky story, but the heartache somehow makes it more accessible? USDS was set up as an elite force of IT pros and UI/UX designers. It could parachute in & help fed agencies deploy better tech. Musk turned USDS into DOGE. It became a bacteriophage. It went in other agencies to wreck them.

News: Here comes the sun! 🌞🌞Read and subscribe for amazing local, policy and political news www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/b...

Press release for our upcoming book, our first-ever non-fiction title! Count Me Out: The Best Federal Resignations of 2026 www.bicycle-comics.com/media/PR_cou... #ResignationBook 💙📚 #booksky

Happy Labor Day from DHWU!

Ok here we go: It DOES look like a major purpose of this NIH funding transfer to NIH is to circumvent NIH’s peer review processes so political appointees can have control. Check out the redacted agreement @maxkozlov.bsky.social released: 1/